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Which homemade
airplane design flies best?
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Introduction:
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invented in 1903 by Orville
& Wilbur Wright. Before the Wright
brothers, many others made varieties of wings and kites
as an instrument of flight. Of course not all designs
were successful. For many years fabric and wood have
been the main material used in the construction of kites
and airplanes. Regardless of material used in
construction of an airplane, certain designs have had
more success than others. Such success and failures
became the foundation for developing a new branch of
physical science, called aerodynamics. |
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Model airplanes made from paper
or balsa wood follow the same aerodynamic rules as larger
airplanes. The purpose of this project is discovering some of
the aerodynamic concepts and experimenting some possible
airplane designs. |
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Project
description:
In this project you will make paper or balsa wood airplanes with
different designs to see which one flies best. |
Details
of this project
More details or support for this project is available at the
members section of ScienceProject.com web site. Material
needed for experiment or a science kit about this title may be
available at MiniScience.com. |
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